Rabbit Hole Recap #230: Building in the Bear Party Rip

This week Marty and Matt discuss

DCG owes gemini customers $900M https://archive.ph/A4xti

Strike launches remittance product for Africa https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20221206005453/en/Strike-Launches-Lightning-Fast-Money-Transfers-to-Africa

Legends of Lightning tournament winners announced https://boltfun.substack.com/p/legendsoflightning-2022-winners

Block funds African rural mining company ‘Gridless’ https://gridlesscompute.com/2022/12/06/gridless-a-bitcoin-mining-company-in-east-africa-raises-2m-in-funding-led-by-stillmark-and-block-inc/

Ledger announces new hardware wallet ‘Stax’ https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20221206005695/en/

Core Lightning v22.11 https://blog.blockstream.com/core-lightning-v22-11-alameda-yield-generator/

BDK v0.25.0 https://github.com/bitcoindevkit/bdk/releases/tag/v0.25.0

Tor Browser v12.0 https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-120/

Threema encrypted messenger adds new communication protocol https://threema.ch/en/blog/posts/ibex

Silvergate CEO Alan Lane public letter https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1312109/000131210922000233/ex991-letterfromsilvergate.htm

FTX full venture portfolio released https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/content/files/2022/12/Alameda-Investments.xlsx

This month in bitcoin privacy https://enegnei.github.io/This-Month-In-Bitcoin-Privacy/November_2022/

New zoltan, world war III has already started https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/content/files/2022/12/Zoltan-Dec5-2022.pdf

8:54 - Ranch pills and orange pills
32:31 - Dashboard
37:35 - DCG owes $900 million
43:10 - Matty Jones: Brady and Giselle split to avoid FTX fallout
48:08 - Strike launches Africa remittance feature
51:06 - More Beef Initiative talk
1:04:33 - KYC is the enemy
1:06:53 - Bullshit jobs
1:14:04 - Legends of Lightning winners
1:18:22 - Gridless African mining
1:25:22 - New Ledger wallet
1:40:53 - Shoutouts
1:47:41 - Core Lightning
1:48:11 - BDK
1:48:41 - TOR
1:49:36 - Threema's Ibex, different from IBEX
1:51:19 - Alan Lane's public letter
1:54:11 FTX-Alameda portfolio
1:58:11 - This Month in Bitcoin Privacy
2:00:36 - Zoltan, WWIII already here
2:07:06 - Final thoughts from Slim and Jason
2:08:51 - Boostagrams

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